The impact of meditation on healthy ageing - the current state of knowledge and a roadmap to future directions.

[en] There is increasing evidence that meditation-based training promotes healthy ageing across many dimensions. This review summarizes the existing knowledge on the effects of meditation training on healthy ageing in the domains of emotions, cognition (with a special emphasis on attentional processes), and the preservation of related brain structures. Although evidence so far is promising, more rigorous randomized controlled studies with active control groups and long-term follow-up in older people are needed. We outline how these challenges can be addressed in future studies using the example of an ongoing project, Medit-Ageing (public name: Silver Sante Study), including two independent randomized controlled trials (RCT) as well as one cross-sectional study with meditation experts.

Research center :

GIGA CRC (Cyclotron Research Center) In vivo Imaging-Aging & Memory - ULiège

Disciplines :

Neurosciences & behavior

Author, co-author :

Klimecki, Olga

Marchant, Natalie

Lutz, Antoine

Poisnel, Geraldine

Chetelat, Gael

Collette, Fabienne ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie > Neuropsychologie

Language :

English

Title :

The impact of meditation on healthy ageing - the current state of knowledge and a roadmap to future directions.

Publication date :

2019

Journal title :

Current Opinion in Psychology

ISSN :

2352-250X

eISSN :

2352-2518

Publisher :

Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Volume :

Pages :

223-228

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

European Projects :

H2020 - 667696 - MEDIT-AGEING - Investigating the impact of meditation training on mental health and wellbeing in the ageing population

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
CE - Commission Européenne [BE]

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